of Esquimaux features; but this variety of physiognomy we afterward found not to be uncommon among these people.  The men appeared about forty and twenty-two years of age, and were accompanied by a good-looking and good-humoured boy of nine or ten.  They each held in their hand a sealskin case or quiver, containing a bow and three or four arrows, with a set of which they willingly parted, on being presented with a knife in exchange.  The first looks with which they received us betrayed a mixture of stupidity and apprehension, but both wore off in a few minutes on our making them understand that we wished to go to their habitations.  With this request they complied without hesitation, tripping along before us for above two miles over very rough ground, and crossing one or two considerable streams running from a lake into the sea.  This they performed with so much quickness that we could with difficulty keep up with them, though they good-naturedly stopped now and then till we overtook them.  We were met on our way by two women, from twenty to twenty-five years of age, having each a child at her back; they too accompanied us to their tent, which was situated on a high part of the coast overlooking the sea.  It consisted of a rude circular wall of loose stones, from six to eight feet in diameter and three in height, in the centre of which stood an upright pole, made of several pieces of fir-wood lashed together by thongs, and serving as a support to the deerskins that formed the top covering.  Soon after our arrival we were joined by a good-looking, modest girl of about eight, and a boy five years old.  Of these nine persons, which were all we now saw, only the elder man and two of the children belonged to this tent, the habitations of the others being a little more inland.  The faces of the women were round, plump, tattooed, and, in short, completely Esquimaux.  The kayak or canoe belonging to this establishment was carefully laid on the rocks close to the seaside, with the paddle and the man’s mittens in readiness beside it.  The timbers were entirely of wood, and covered, as usual, with sealskin.  Its length was nineteen feet seven inches, and its extreme breadth two feet; it was raised a little at each end, and the rim or gunwale of the circular hole in the middle was high, and made of whalebone.  A handsome sealskin was smoothly laid within as a seat, and the whole was sewn and put together with great neatness.  The paddle was double, made of fir, and the ends of the blades tipped with bone, to prevent splitting.

The fireplace in the tent consisted of three rough stones carelessly placed on end against one side, and they had several pots of lapis ollaris for culinary purposes.  These people seemed to us altogether more cleanly than any Esquimaux we had before seen, both in their persons and in the interior of their tent, in neither of which could we discover much of that rancid and pungent smell which is in general so offensive to Europeans.  One instance